October 19, 2024 Oktoberfest!! September 22, 2024 German Studies Student Council September 9, 2024 Newsletter 2024 September 9, 2024 2024 Deutsch-Treff ~ Every Wednesday September 6, 2024 The Visible Century: Béla Balázs’s Visible Man at 100 August 22, 2023 German Department Newsletter 2023 May 20, 2023 Congratulations to our Graduating German Majors & Minors! April 25, 2023 Summer Language Institute 2023 May 16, 2020 Congratulations to our Graduating German Majors & Minors! May 15, 2020 2020 Walter H. Sokel Prize Winner ~ Trevor Bailey November 30, 2018 Reporters at War ~ Gabriele Riedle Talk November 15, 2018 Marcel Schmid Talk ~ The Esoteric Roots of Seriality: Kammerer, Jung, and Koestler October 17, 2018 William Coker Talk ~ Novel or New Mythology? Hölderlin’s Hyperion and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein October 12, 2018 Professor Peter Burgard Talk ~ NIETZSCHE AND THE ETHICS OF ATHEISM April 13, 2018 Armin Langer discusses religious and cultural acceptance in the 21st Century February 11, 2018 Kaffeestunde Every Wednesday February 8, 2018 Gone But Not Forgotten: Why the Berlin Wall Maintains a Grip on Us November 30, 2017 Imran Ayata - Songs of Gastarbeiter March 21, 2016 Staging visits in Cold War Berlin - Lecture by Dr. Andreas Edges March 19, 2016 German Film Festival March 14, 2016 German Ambassador Peter Wittig March 2, 2016 "Clouded Vision: Particulate Matter in F. W. Murnau's Faust." Lecture by Paul Dobryden February 24, 2016 "Converging Film Histories: The Cinema of Fatih Akin" Lecture by Berna Gueneli February 17, 2016 "Objects in Motion: Hans Richter, Animation, and the Crisis of Avant-Garde Film" Lecture by Brook Henkel November 2, 2015 German Movie Night October 30, 2015 Mona Koerte ~ Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor ~ Lecture October 7, 2015 Spiritual Homelands September 18, 2015 Workshop for Teachers in German October 29, 2014 "Beyond Socialist Realism: Rethinking Art & Politics in the Soviet Bloc" ( Co-sponsored by the German dept.) October 24, 2014 Paradoxien der Anerkennung: Theoretische Überlegungen und literarische Figuratione- Max Kade Professor Ulrike Stamm October 16, 2014 "Considerations for Collegiate Foreign Language Programs" Institute of World Languages (IWL) hosting Professor Heidi Byrnes of Georgetown Univ. March 28, 2014 German on the Lawn February 28, 2014 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference October 25, 2013 Klaus Theweleit ~ Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor "Mental Leaps" May 19, 2013 Final Exercises April 26, 2013 CGS Conference: On "Fallgeschichten"/"Case Studies-Case Histories" April 12, 2013 Schneider Lecture March 22, 2013 Lecture by Russell Miller (Washington and Lee University School of Law) March 1, 2013 Lecture by B. Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin, Madison) March 23, 2012 “Threshold Conditions: Benjamin, Schnitzler and the Sleeping Disorders of Modernism” February 24, 2012 "Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights (A Reading of Dorman's Death and the Maiden)" February 17, 2012 "Wasted Spaces": Annual Graduate Student Conference February 17, 2012 Keynote address: Rochelle Tobias (Johns Hopkins University) December 3, 2011 Center for German Studies workshop on Kleist: "The Afterlife of Heinrich von Kleist" November 17, 2011 Watson Manor Event November 12, 2011 CGS workshop: “Die Pegnitzschäfer - Nürnberger Barockdichtung” October 31, 2011 Do Deutsch October 21, 2011 Spaziergang durch Bilder. Im Spielraum des Emblems October 10, 2011 Germany Today: Not Separate, Yet Not Quite Unified September 1, 2011 Special mid-Atlantic premiere screening of the new German comedy Almanya, Welcome to Germany (Yasemin Samdereli, 2011) April 15, 2011 Maria Edgeworth and the Lunar Enlightenment March 25, 2011 Auerbach's Dante: Poetical Theology and the Question of World Literature November 5, 2010 Car of the Future Conference October 22, 2010 "On the History of 'Jewish Self-Hatred'" September 24, 2010 Dissertation Prospectus Presentations September 17, 2010 Im Innern ist alles alles abgeschrieben“ - Zu Einfluss und Plagiat in den Tagebüchern Franz Kafkas November 2, 2009 Lecture by B. Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin, Madison) October 23, 2009 Pedagogical Seminar October 13, 2009 Lecture September 26, 2009 Freedom Without Walls
October 17, 2018 William Coker Talk ~ Novel or New Mythology? Hölderlin’s Hyperion and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
February 17, 2016 "Objects in Motion: Hans Richter, Animation, and the Crisis of Avant-Garde Film" Lecture by Brook Henkel
October 29, 2014 "Beyond Socialist Realism: Rethinking Art & Politics in the Soviet Bloc" ( Co-sponsored by the German dept.)
October 24, 2014 Paradoxien der Anerkennung: Theoretische Überlegungen und literarische Figuratione- Max Kade Professor Ulrike Stamm
October 16, 2014 "Considerations for Collegiate Foreign Language Programs" Institute of World Languages (IWL) hosting Professor Heidi Byrnes of Georgetown Univ.
February 24, 2012 "Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights (A Reading of Dorman's Death and the Maiden)"
December 3, 2011 Center for German Studies workshop on Kleist: "The Afterlife of Heinrich von Kleist"
September 1, 2011 Special mid-Atlantic premiere screening of the new German comedy Almanya, Welcome to Germany (Yasemin Samdereli, 2011)
September 17, 2010 Im Innern ist alles alles abgeschrieben“ - Zu Einfluss und Plagiat in den Tagebüchern Franz Kafkas
